an anecdote            
                                          
 today  it rained, and i would go outside 
 i  thought, so i  smoked a pipe  and got 
 dressed,  and   outside  the  rain   had 
 turned into snow  so  thick that  it was 
 as dense fog ... and then i went to  get 
 the mail,  but there  was a woman and we 
 talked a little.  now because i was high 
 and  it was  snowing so funny  and i had 
 an umbrella against the  snow, but  snow 
 all over my face anyway,  and i wondered 
        about myself, and my life